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Nobody knows what sleeping mushrooms dream of when their vast mycelial networks flicker and pulse with electrochemical responses akin to those of our own brain cells.

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... But given a chance, what might this web of impulses do if granted a moment of freedom?

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Cornell University in the US and the University of Florence in Italy took steps to find out, putting a culture of the edible mushroom species Pleurotus eryngii (also known as the king oyster mushroom) in control of a pair of vehicles, which can twitch and roll across a flat surface.

Through a series of experiments, the researchers showed it was possible to use the mushroom's electrophysiological activity as a means of translating environmental cues into directives, which could, in turn, be used to drive a mechanical device's movements. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-06 12:05 PM | Reply

Empowering mushrooms seems dangerous.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-06 01:57 PM | Reply

@#2

I'd say it may depend upon the 'shroom.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-06 06:14 PM | Reply

#2 the robots are happy

#4 | Posted by ichiro at 2024-09-07 02:06 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Does depend on the shroom... in college in East Texas, the cows were nice enough to drop their paddies in fields nearby, making good cover for shrooms.

Great teas! Very Psychedelia. Mostly like living in the Roger Rabbit movie.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-07 02:14 PM | Reply

So, the robots should at least be creative.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-07 02:20 PM | Reply

Empowering mushrooms seems dangerous.

#2 | POSTED BY ZED

According to Terrence McKenna it would be like empowering the alien species that the cosmic winds blew here and is the reason we are a bunch of "stoned apes".

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-07 03:43 PM | Reply

Trump gave a mushroom a body.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-07 04:24 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#8
You sir have won the internet today.

#9 | Posted by TaoWarrior at 2024-09-07 04:32 PM | Reply

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